oppressive

oppressive
adj.
P. and V. βᾰρύς.
Unjust: P. and V. ἄ̆δῐκος.

OPPRESSIVE

gravis (burdensome): molestus (troublesome): magnus (great): durus (hard): acerbus (bitter): iniquus (not equitable unjust). Oppressive heat calorum molestiae: oppressive taxes tributa acerba: oppressive government imperium acerbum grave iniquum; imperii acerbitas: to labor under an oppressive debt aere alieno premi: to become oppressive gravescere; ingravescere: so oppressive were the wrongs that etc. tanta vis erat injuriarum ut etc.: this is an oppressive feeling hoc valde me urit pungit mordet.

oppressive:

1. grăvis, praegrăvis (burdensome in any way): if these (requirements) seemed o. or distressing, haec si g. aut acerba videantur, Caes. B. G. 7, 14: o. bondage, praegrave servitium, Plin.: v. GRIEVOUS.

2. mŏlestus (less strong than Eng.): v. TROUBLESOME, IRKSOME.

3. ăcerbus (bitter and distressing): most o. taxes, acerbissima tributa, Cic. Fam. 15, 4, init.: cf. supr. (1), where acerbus is used as a heightened expression after gravis.

4. ĭnīquus (unfair, pressing too heavily on): v. UNJUST. Phr.: most o. taxation, intolerabilia tributa, Cic. Fam. 3, 7, init.: the o. (lit. leaden) S. wind, plumbeus Auster, Hor. S. 2, 6, 18 (gravis = unhealthy): to become more and more o., ingravescere, Cic. Br. 1, 10, init.